M. Diane Sullivan

Tuesday

Aug 1, 2017 at 8:01 PM

Margaret Diane Sullivan, 84, of Keosauqua, died at 3:30 p.m. Friday, July 28, 2017, at University Hospital in Iowa City. Born Aug. 9, 1932, in Creston, she was the daughter of Clyde and Helen Davis Duncan. On Aug. 24, 1959, she married Thomas J. Sullivan in Lone Tree.

Mrs. Sullivan and her husband owned and operated Sullivan Drug, Inc., where she was secretary, and she taught at Lone Tree School. She graduated from Oskaloosa High School, attended Parsons College in Fairfield and William Penn University in Oskaloosa, and graduated from Drake University in Des Moines.

She was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church in Fairfield, was active in Van Buren Players and did volunteer work for Riverview Club in Keosauqua. She enjoyed bird watching, playing piano, horticulture, gardening and was a wonderful (self-taught) cook. She had a prolific understanding and love of college basketball.

Survivors include her husband; seven children, Jay and Joe, both of Minden, Nevada, Jim of Casper, Wyoming, John of Redondo Beach, California, Jeff of Tempe, Arizona, Mary of Pacific Beach, California, and Gene of Manhattan Beach, California; and eight grandchildren.

The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at Pedrick Funeral Home in Keosauqua. The casket will remain closed.

The funeral Mass for Mrs. Sullivan will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary Catholic Church in Fairfield with the Rev. Nick Adam as celebrant. Cremation will follow. Private burial will be in Purdom Cemetery, Keosauqua.

Memorials have been established for Van Buren Players and Friends of Lacey Keosauqua State Park.

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